Reporter At Center Of Latest Trump Claim: Trump Is Still Wrong

“Because let him deal with it. Let him explain to people, let him show the evidence of it”.

Later that evening, he appeared on CNN with Pastor James Davis, who attended the meeting, and told him to his face that he was a “pawn”. And Guzmán said only that a source reported “cheering” and that police were called to a building in Jersey City to find “eight men celebrating” – far fewer than the thousands Trump claimed to see.

“We did have some celebrating, that was true”, said Giuliani. “We had pockets of celebration some in Queens, some in Brooklyn – 10, 12, 30, 40” people.

Acevedo said she saw “a lot of people, and they were just chanting and raving, and I noticed they were holding things”.

“We had one situation in which a candy store owned by a Muslim family was celebrating that day, right near a housing development”.

“One thing I can tell you, he’s always been candid and he tells it like it is – at least you know where he stands”, she said about Trump.

“I think they want to see victory because it is about we want to win and we want to win together”, he said after the meeting this afternoon.

But beyond that incident, the former mayor said, there wasn’t much violence.

“It gave them a chance to be on television, and in the newspaper, where otherwise nobody would have ever known their names”, he said.

Rudy Giuliani visits “Cavuto” On FOX Business Network at FOX Studios on September 23, 2014 in New York City.

Asked at the press conference to address Black Lives Matter movement, Trump said he had no interest in going there. But on Tuesday, MTV News republished the full news report, which shows a young New Jersey resident who describes seeing “13, maybe 14 at most” teenagers apparently celebrating.

Trump’s original assertion, especially his emphasis on “thousands and thousands” of people celebrating, has been refuted by fact-checkers at The Washington Post and Politifact.

She said that most pastors are not allowed to endorse political candidates and that the meeting was set to gather information about Trump. Carson told reporters that he too remembers seeing video of celebrations taking place in New Jersey after the attacks.Silwa defended himself on Twitter, saying that his comments had been taken out of context.